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The History Channel earns huge ratings with 'The Bible'
The Baltimore SunThe networks might be struggling on Sunday nights but not basic cable's the History Channel. The miniseries beat everything in sight Sunday night with record ratings for "The Bible." I think this quote from executive producers Roma Downey and Mark...Tags: Media Industry, Television, Primetime Emmy Awards, Blu-ray Discs, Hans Zimmer
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Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...
Tags: Patrick Goldstein, All in the Family (tv program) , Elections, Abortion Issue, James Cameron
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Norman Lear: Occupy movement revives tradition of protest
I was recently shown a picture from one of the Occupy protests taking place across the country. It featured a young woman surrounded by police. She was the only protester in the picture, but she didn't seem intimidated. All by herself, up against the...Tags: Political Dissent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gays and Lesbians, Immigration, Protest
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They leave as they began: With a buzz
TV/Radio WriterLooking back, it's easy to see how Frasier and Friends became TV icons. Television has no more valuable commodity than buzz, unless it is a time slot between two popular series. Friends and Frasier, which arrived a season apart and are departing a week...Tags: Television, All in the Family (tv program) , Ted Danson, Peri Gilpin, Bruce Springsteen
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Lt. governor draws 40% of funds from outside Maryland
Sun StaffDemocrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is collecting a significantly greater share of her campaign contributions from out of state than Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., according to an analysis of fund-raising reports. Almost 40 percent of the $6.7...Tags: Television, Executive Branch, Amgen Inc., Robert F. Kennedy, Local Elections
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The Contenders: Tina Fey gets to let loose on the 'fun stuff' in '30 Rock's' final season
Tina Fey never had a master plan for the end of "30 Rock." She wasn't even sure if, this time last year, NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt was about to pick up the phone, cancel the show and preempt a graceful exit for her decorated sitcom. "We'll never...
Tags: Tina Fey, St. Elsewhere (tv program), Primetime Emmy Awards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show (tv program), Music
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Pine, Quinto on film’s real-world parallels
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Star Trek” has always been about more than a spaceship crew hurtling through the cosmos — over the decades, the ...... -
When you say jazz, Nicholas Payton hears BAM
In a cramped UCLA classroom, trumpeter Nicholas Payton is leading a young septet of college students through his piece "The Backwards Step." He's here as part of a weeklong teaching residency, and the song he plays to the group at the Thelonious Monk...
Tags: Branford Marsalis, Fine Artists, Richie Havens, Artists, Ceremonies
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On TV, a new breed of Modern Woman
A ruthlessly self-aware political wife reconsidering her choices. A sensual socialite facing down an oppressive age with informed good humor. A group of young women so busy defying social expectations they've forgotten to have any of their own. A...
Tags: Media Industry, Sex and the City (movie), Kate Mara, Robin Wright, The Awakening (movie)
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LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian snag a bucolic bargain
Country singing star LeAnn Rimes and her husband, actor Eddie Cibrian, know a bargain when they see one. The pair spent $3 million behind the gates in bucolic Hidden Hills on a house marketed as a short sale that once sold for $5.575 million. The...
Tags: Homes, All in the Family (tv program) , St. Elsewhere (tv program), TMZ (tv program), CSI: Miami (tv program)
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Concord Music Acquisition Boosts Star Power For New Haven Firm
The Hartford CourantFor Brett D. Hellerman, CEO of Wood Creek Capital Management LLC in New Haven, buying one of the most prominent independent record companies is a coup for several reasons, not least a partnership with a revered Hollywood legend. Wood Creek's purchase...Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Cyndi Lauper, Starbucks Corp., Music, Parties and Movements
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Bonnie Franklin: a round of sweet applause for an innovator
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelExuberant, energetic and loving, Bonnie Franklin presented a dynamic image as a TV mom. In her long-running sitcom, “One Day at a Time,” Franklin as Ann Romano helped push television to a greater realism about single mothers and family life....
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